[curtisgardner]

and we all know candidates campaign either right or left to win support from the base and then move center for the general election. Regardless of what the candidates promise or what platforms they run on, it means nothing when it comes to passing legislation. The Dems “promised” to leave Iraq but it still hasn’t happened because its not that easy. Candidates can say whatever they want to get elected (i.e. Dems candidates promising an exit from Iraq or Hastert runnning as a staunch conservative) but once they are elected, the political realities of many different opinions come together and they all must deal with it.

[Nervous Tick]

Thank you for the pedantic lecture on “what we all know”.

I realize now that I didn’t really know what my own lyin’ eyes and reasoned judgment have shown me. I’m grateful to you for setting me straight.

Now, could you please explain, based on your natural law of Inexorable Movement to the Middle, how Hastert and his band of merry men...

were FORCED to support unethical behavior?

were FORCED to spend more prodigiously than the Donks ever even dreamed they could get away with?

were FORCED to look the other way as lobbyists took over the House?

All at a time when their party had the SENATE and the PRESIDENCY, not to mention an OVERWHELMING MAJORITY in the house?

Thanks!